Posted 12/06/2009 at 05:15:43pm

A google account is an opt-in service in the first place, so I think they are justified to collect the information they do. Google does collect tons of information on you, but it's good that they are trying to be transparent with information like this.

Posted 10/06/2009 at 11:21:00am

One thing that is wrong with them is with the current state of affairs, you have to hold your arm up to the screen all day.These devices are a more likely solution until displays are designed to work solely with touch input.

Posted 04/24/2009 at 10:04:40am

Interestingly, Intel is developing a discrete graphics card (codename Larrabee) that is composed of a bunch of x86 cores (with extensions for graphics processing). This is the same architecture as Intel and AMD CPUs, so in the future it may be possible for these cores to offload tasks from the CPU without special software like Stream, CUDA, or OpenCL (though this would probably require a lot of support from the operating system itself).

 Though current GPUs are very fast at what they are designed to do and special software would likely take good advantage of that.